On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:08:15AM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: | On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 16:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > | > Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > | > > I would like to crrectly set-up a HP2200D printer, | > > using lpd and magicfilter. | > ... | > > Anyone has any experience with this? | > | > This page, http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_2200, has info on the '2200' model, but makes no mention of a 'd' suffix... | > | > Hall | | Read that, should be the same but it needs foomatic which I was unable | to install celanly while preserving all the funcionalities and ease of | use of lpd (for networking). I would like to know how (with lpd) how I | can send the printer commands in order to select the inkdensity and the | duplex mode. | I understand that with standard lpd I will probably have to set-up | several printer queues, but I need to know how to modify the filters in | order to do this.
I would suggest trying cups and the cupsomatic package (cupsomatic has a debian package). Cups can be plugged in in place of lpd, and it also supports many more options in the command line (of lp(r)) so that a way that you can have a single queue. HTH, -D